"The modern period adds social ethics to religions……" — Huston Smith
"The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them."
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81 Quotes by Huston Smith
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only…
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot…
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful,…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art,…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that…
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